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Registration is open for our postgraduate modules, beginning October 2017.
Programmes in design thinking, innovation & entrepreneurship for students
and professionals. Learn new skills to tackle old problems.
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Back by popular demand - it's the Lego Challenge at Discover Research Dublin.
7.30 - 8.30, Friday, 26 September 2014
The Lego Challenge is a fun and fast-paced group activity that illustrates the key research skills of creative thinking,

Innovation Café at Discover Research Dublin : 26 September 2014
6 - 7pm, 3 Foster Place, College Green - all welcome!
We are delighted to be taking part in Discover Research Dublin again in 2014, with another thought-provoking Innovation Cafe panel

Welcome to the Innovation Academy page dedicated entirely to our snug hoodies - and the students and contributors who wear them, naturally! We love them, you love them so wherever you are in the world get snap happy and send us your pics.
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The Paperclip Challenge is open to all students in Trinity College Dublin (even those who are not currently taking modules with us!)
It's a competition in which students take a plain paperclip and use it

Innovation Academy students Carla Ferreira, Luca Mancinelli and Vincent Mouchi were selected to represent Trinity College Dublin at the Alltech Innovation Competition 2014 on 2 April 2014. For this second edition of the competition, Allt

Six multidisciplinary undergraduate teams, consisting of both TCD and NCAD students certainly inspired the audience at the Science Gallery Paccar Theatre last Thursday when they pitched their project concepts emanating from The Science Gallery’s provoki

A group of 20 Malaysian academics recently completed an advanced training course in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Innovation Academy, Trinity College Dublin. The delegates consisted of professors and senior lecturers from a variety of prestigiou

Innovation Academy Ambassador Vincent Mouchi took part in the Fail Big event at the Science Gallery last Friday. His role: to talk about failure in research (a quite important part of research in general…) in a 5 minute talk. Specificall

We are delighted to welcome back Bill Liao to our Innovation Cafe Speaker Series. Bill will bring us up to speed with his latest start-ups and shake-ups including two incredible global movements CoderDojo http://coderdojo.com/ and WeForest http://wefor

Science Gallery and the Innovation Academy at Trinity College Dublin have joined forces to deliver an exciting Broad Curriculum course on the theme of STRANGE WEATHER. Throughout the 12-week Idea Translation Lab, students will delve deeper into this theme

...and others to follow? What kind of leader might you be?
Leadership Development
We draw on research and best practice from across the world to assist you to reflect on your leadership practice and come up with a picture of the leader you are

Students come to the Innovation Academy from a huge variety of backgrounds, both culturally and in their research. In Trinity, we want to give our students an opportunity to share their experiences with their peers across campus.
We’ve recruited a te

From 13 - 15 November, the UCD Earth Institute hosted the Earth Gathering event in Dublin. This 3-day conference gathered scientists, policy makers and industrialists together for a discussion of the ecological issues that need to be addressed to ensure